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[In all manners]

Bleed
for the time it’s worth
bleed
for the death of
mediocrity
bleed while you’ve still
got the blood

bleed
a thousand rivers
in the place of
one tear to give it
what
you’ve got

bleed
for what you know
is right

bleed not
out of anger
but out of will
not suited
for the timid,
bleed truth
whether it takes
an eon to explain

bleed against
the headboard
w/ the rise of dawn,
because
it’s the only solid
surface left
when the ride
gets crazy,
bleeding
for the want
of wants

poem published by Rolling Thunder Press
as well included in my manuscript: Show Heaven to the Sheep
photo explanation: The reason I used that photo in particular is because
that is a vial of my own blood from experiments a fellow artist & I were doing
using blood letting in our art (that vial includes a spiral of copper, corked & sealed w/ wax).
The bead is bone & the trinket is St. Dominic (astronomers).